The Cabinet is to consider on Monday a report recommending the privatisation of speed cameras, which says that more than €70 million could be raised in the first year of the system's full operation .
The report, compiled by an expert working group comprising senior officials and including the Garda, recommends a new system of privatised mobile speed cameras which would be used to target between 500 and 600 blackspot sites around the country.
More speed checks should take place at weekends than on weekdays, and the highest proportion of checks should take place between midnight and 3am. It also recommends that 80 per cent of the speed checks should be from hidden cameras during the first year